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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-combat-des-rats-et-des-belettes.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 7</span><span class="fp-text">PHÈDRE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula VII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="FEDRUS  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">PHAEDRUS</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="PHAEDRUS  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">FEDRUS</span></span></span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Censeur malin, toi qui critiques mes écrits,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">toi qui dédaignes un genre qui te paraît frivole,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je te demande un peu de patience ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et pour éclaircir ton front sévère,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ésope vient de chausser le cothurne.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tu qui, nasute, scripta <span class="fp-correction" title="distringis  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">destringis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="destringis  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">distringis</span></span> mea</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et hoc jocorum legere fastidis genus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">parva libellum sustine patientia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">severitatem frontis dum placo tuae</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et in <span class="fp-correction" title="coturnis  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">cothurnis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="cothurnis  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">coturnis</span></span> prodit Aesopus novis.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Plût aux dieux que jamais la hache thessalienne</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">n'eût abattu les pins de la cime du Pélion&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Et que jamais Argus, qui courait avec audace à un trépas certain,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">n'eût construit, par les conseils de Minerve, ce vaisseau qui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pour la ruine des Grecs et des Barbares,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">sillonna le premier les flots inhospitaliers du Pont-Euxin&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Car la famille du superbe Æétès est plongée dans le deuil,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et le royaume de Pélias a succombé aux crimes de Médée.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette femme artificieuse, cachant adroitement sa cruauté,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">sème ici les membres de son frère, pour assurer sa fuite,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et là égorge Pélias par la main de ses filles.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Utinam nec umquam <span class="fp-correction" title="Pelei  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">Pelii</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Pelii  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Pelei</span></span> nemoris jugo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pinus bipenni concidisset Thessala,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec ad <span class="fp-correction" title="professe  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">professae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="professae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">professe</span></span> mortis audacem <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n116/mode/1up">p.53</a>]</span> viam</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fabricasset Argus opere Palladio ratem,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">inhospitalis prima quae Ponti sinus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">patefecit in pernitiem Graium et Barbarum&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Namque et superbi luget <span class="fp-correction" title="Aetae  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aeetae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Aeetae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aetae</span></span> domus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et regna Peliae <span class="fp-correction" title="scele  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">scelere</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="scelere  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">scele</span></span> Medeae jacent,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quae <span class="fp-correction" title="sevum  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">saevum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="saevum  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sevum</span></span> ingenium variis involvens modis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">illic per artus fratris explicuit fugam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hic caede patris Peliadum <span class="fp-correction" title="interfecit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">infecit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="infecit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">interfecit</span></span> manus.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Que t'en semble&nbsp;? Style fade, faits mensongers, diras-tu ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car, longtemps auparavant, Minos, sur ses vaisseaux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">avait dompté les flots de la mer Égée,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et puni un crime d'un juste châtiment.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Que puis-je donc pour toi, lecteur qui fais le Caton,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">si tu n'aimes, ni mes fables, ni mes récits&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Épargne, pourtant, un peu plus les auteurs,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ou leur plume ne t'épargnera pas.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quid tibi videtur&nbsp;? «&nbsp;Hoc quoque insulsum est, ait,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">falsoque dictum ; longe quia vetustior</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Aegrea  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aegaea</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Aegaea  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Aegrea</span></span> Minos classe perdomuit freta</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">justoque vindicavit exemplo <span class="fp-correction" title="imperium  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">impetum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="impetum  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">imperium</span></span>.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quid ergo possum facere tibi, <span class="fp-correction" title="lecte reato  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">lector Cato</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="lector Cato  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">lecte reato</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">si nec <span class="fp-correction" title="fabella  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">fabellae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fabellae  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fabella</span></span> te juvant nec <span class="fp-correction" title="fubulae  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">fabulae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fabulae  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fubulae</span></span>&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Noli molestus esse omnino litteris,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">majorem exhibeant ne tibi molestiam.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Je le dis pour ces ignorants qui font les délicats,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qui, pour se donner un air de bon goût, critiqueraient le ciel même.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc illis dictum est, si qui stultitiam nausiant,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et ut putentur sapere caelum vituperant.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-combat-des-rats-et-des-belettes.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
<td class="fp-right"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-vipere-et-la-lime.html">Fable suivante</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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